Oceanic rings and jets as statistical equilibrium states

Journal of Physical Oceanography

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1860-1873

  Venaille, Antoine ^a,b   Bouchet, Freddy ^a  

^a Laboratoire de Physique UMR CNRS ENSL   (France)

^b GFDL   (United States)

Author keywords

Jets; Mesoscale processes; Quasigeostrophic models

Indexed keywords

BASIN SCALE; EQUILIBRIUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS; LARGE-SCALE COHERENT STRUCTURES; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE PROCESS; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC MODEL; SPONTANEOUS FORMATION; STATISTICAL EQUILIBRIUM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; UNSTABLE STATE; WIND FORCING;

JETS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

FLOW MODELING; JET FLOW; MESOSCALE MOTION; POTENTIAL VORTICITY; QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW;

EID: 81455123098     PISSN: 00223670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JPO4583.1     Document Type: Article

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